Kidnapped Jonathan’s cousin Ogiasa cries for help from grave 

kidnapped Engr. Mike Ogiasa a former commissioner of Bayelsa State, and cousin to the former president Goodluck Jonathan, who was abducted last month has cried out for help from the grave filled with dirty water.

Wakadaily gathered that Engr. Ogiasa was kidnaped by gunmen early June, in his home town, Otuabadi in Ogbia’s local government area of the state, after he returned home from a meeting.

Meanwhile, Ogiasa whose hands and legs were tied was seen in a short video released by his abductor Inside a flooded grave,  pleading for his life half-naked with black cloth covering his head saying, “Is the money more important than my life? You’re seeing me in the grave and the money is there doing nothing, please do everything possible to get me out, Please do everything to come and release me.”

The Spokesman of the Bayelsa Police Command, Asinim Butswat, said “the heads of security agencies have met on Friday night to brainstorm on new strategies to ensure he is rescued unhurt.”

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